Community Assessment and Analysis Presentation - Public Health

This presentation provides a community assessment and analysis focusing on the healthcare situation in India. It begins with a description of the community, including population, geographic, geopolitical, financial, and educational levels. The assessment explores ethnic and phenomenological features, social interactions, common goals, and barriers to health, such as poverty, lack of education, and substance abuse. The presentation summarizes funding sources and partnerships for the assessment. It includes key findings from interviews with healthcare providers, highlighting prevalent health problems like lung diseases, heart diseases, and infectious diseases, along with the roles and responsibilities of healthcare providers. It identifies issues such as lack of awareness about non-communicable diseases, discrimination against those with mental illnesses, and the need for improved sanitation and preventive programs. The conclusion emphasizes the poor healthcare conditions, the need for increased funding, and resources to address these issues in rural areas, referencing relevant literature.

Community
Assessment and
Analysis
Presentation
Name of the Student
Name of the University

Description of community and
community boundaries
• The people: India is the 2nd most populated country with 1,369 million
people.
• The geographic level: Eastern India
• The geopolitical level: the geopolitical relation India with its neighbor
countries like Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan is good
• The financial level: India ranked 142nd when it comes to GDP
• The educational level: The school system in India possess 4 levels
namely lower primary, upper primary and high and higher secondary.
The literacy percentage in India is74 percent.

Description of community and
community boundaries
• Ethnic and phenomenological features of the community:
The community members are conservative ad believes in
idols.
• types of social interactions: social interaction between
the community members are effective
• common goals and interests: Farming, harvesting and
labor at industries

Description of community and
community boundaries
• interests; and barriers, and challenges, including any
identified social determinates of health
• Poverty
• Lack of education
• Substance abuse
• Unhygienic sanitary practices
• Unhealthy food and water consumption habit

Summary of community
assessment
Funding sources
• The chief factors for which findings was required includes
conducting the interview.
• The chief funding of this community assessment has been
received from government.
• Apart from that fund is also provided by American Association
of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)

Summary of community
assessment
Partnership
• Partnership refers to a strategy which facilitates in
building, consolidating as we as sharing of knowledge
along with expertise which contributes for promoting
research
• For this research, my chief partners were two of my peers
one of whom conduced the interview and another have
assessed the findings

Summary of interview with community
health care service provider
• The preeminent health problem in the community includes
lung diseases as well as disorder, heart diseases,
gastrointestinal disorders and diabetes.
• When it comes to the rural areas contagious water born
and infectious diseases like typhoid, infectious hepatitis,
worm infestations, measles and diarrhea are highly
prevalent, thanks to lack of unhygienic food consumption
and sanitation practices.

Summary of interview with community
health care service provider
• The chief role and responsibility of the Healthcare service
providers in India includes providing treatment to the
patients in my community
• However according to the interviewee, workforce is really
less.
• there exist lack of health awareness which can be
prevented trough education.
• . The community is suffering from lack of adequate
coverage by the health care system.

Summary of interview with community
health care service provider
• Majority of the government hospitals in the community
lacks adequate healthcare service providers
• People opt for private organization
• cost of treatment is so high, this option is inaccessible for
poor
• premature death rate of the lower middle class in India
due to lack of appropriate healthcare is high

Summary of interview with community
health care service provider
• People living in rural area still lacks the awareness of
consuming contaminated water.
• The concept of sanitary pad is not even clear majority of
the residents in rural areas.
• People are unaware the impact of defecating in public
places.

Summary of interview with community
health care service provider
• When it come to major preventive programs held in the
community, Workshops are held in order to make rural
people aware of the importance of sanitary hygiene,
consumption of contamination free water and staffs
• Free health checkup campaigns are also held
• Pay and use toilets has been constructed in the
community.

Summary of interview with community
health care service provider
• According to the interview, the existing preventive
program are not adequate
• Free toilets are needed to be built within the community
in order to ensure effective hygienic sanitation
• Women should be provided with either free or low cost
sanitary napkins in order to prevent the occurrence of UTI
and RTI (Malik, Boyle & Mitchell, 2017)